To see if your PC is ready for Adobe ColdFusion 9, Your computer system must have the following minimum requirements for installing :
ColdFusion 9 allows developers to condense complex business logic into fewer lines of code. And to using it, your hardware have to meet the following system requirements :
WINDOWS
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
500MB of available hard-disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 1 or 2 or Windows Server 2003 R2 (Web, Standard, or Enterprise Edition); Windows Server® 2008 (Web, Standard, or Enterprise Edition) with Service Pack 2 or Windows Server® 2008 R2 (Web, Standard, or Enterprise Edition); Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition; Windows Vista® (Business , Ultimate, or Enterprise) with Service Pack 2; or Windows 7 (Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise)
MAC OS
Intel Pentium 4 processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
500MB of available hard-disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Mac OS X v10.5.x–10.6
SOLARIS
SPARC® processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
500MB of available hard-disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Solaris™ 9 or 10
LINUX
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
500MB of available hard-disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Red Hat® Linux® 5; SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10.3; openSUSE® 11.1; Ubuntu 9.04
AIX (RS/6000)
POWER3 or POWER4 processor
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
500MB of available hard-disk space
DVD-ROM drive
IBM® AIX® 5.3 or 6.1
The majority of the functionality and features of ColdFusion run on 64-bit platforms; however, certain features including ColdFusion COM interoperability, ColdFusion Delphi interoperability, and Microsoft Access database connectivity do not work on a ColdFusion 64-bit platform. A few other features, such as ColdFusion .NET integration services and database drivers currently run in 32-bit mode.